Usually means: Invisible barrier limiting career advancement.
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  1. glass ceiling: Merriam-Webster
  2. glass ceiling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glass ceiling: The Word Spy
  4. glass ceiling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. glass ceiling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. glass ceiling: Vocabulary.com
  7. glass-ceiling: Wordnik
  8. glass ceiling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. glass ceiling: Wiktionary
  10. glass ceiling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. glass ceiling: Dictionary.com
  12. Glass-ceiling, Glass ceiling, The Glass Ceiling, The glass ceiling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. glass ceiling: Rhymezone
  14. glass ceiling: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. glass ceiling: FreeDictionary.org
  16. glass ceiling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. glass ceiling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. glass ceiling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glass ceiling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See glass_ceilings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glass ceiling)

noun:  (idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific demographic group.

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